About the job
At Klaviyo, we celebrate the diverse backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints each team member brings to our workplace. We believe that everyone deserves an opportunity to succeed and value the unique insights each individual contributes beyond traditional qualifications. If you find that you align closely with our requirements but may not meet every single expectation, we encourage you to apply. To explore life at Klaviyo and discover how we empower creators to take charge of their destinies, visit klaviyo.com/careers .
Why You Should Join Our Environments Team
Become a key player in our mission to transform developer efficiency by eliminating the burdens of infrastructure management. As the Lead Software Engineer for the Environments team, you will serve as a hands-on technical leader, responsible for developing tools and systems that empower our engineers to quickly create fully provisioned, short-lived environments. You will connect local development with production-scale testing, ensuring our 'reproducible anywhere' philosophy translates into superior code delivery. Your role will involve refining local workflows and scaling our ephemeral environment platform, as you design, code, and implement the essential systems that enable every engineer in our organization to test and deploy with confidence.
Your Key Achievements: Responsibilities
As the primary technical architect for our environment strategy, you will focus on ensuring 'production-parity' is accessible for every engineer:
- Technical Leadership: Serve as the Lead Individual Contributor (IC) and subject matter expert in environment orchestration, mentoring fellow engineers while fostering a culture of seamless, on-demand testing.
- Architecture & Scalability: Spearhead the design and evolution of our existing platform to support complex, multi-service architectures, ensuring environments remain isolated, secure, and high-performing.
- Simplifying Complexity: Transform our internal infrastructure into user-friendly tools that automate the intricate service provisioning tasks, minimizing manual setups and eliminating 'it works on my machine' obstacles, allowing developers to concentrate on delivering impactful code.

